The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-12

do these days Is to keep awake.
Messrs. Elliot & Co., near Saussy, lost two
fine mules last week from staggers.
Work is being rapidly pushed forward
on the Atlanta Y. NJ. G. A building.
The Knights of Labor organizations which
abound in Atlanta are peaceable kind
Atlanta street car drivers are complain
ing Of the long hours they have to work.
/, Antioch is soon to have a new church
all of the arrangements having been COM
pleted.
A. Fl. Cheney, of Bairdstown, in Lexing-
ton county, had field Of cotton to catch fire
last week.
New Hope had a reunion of Sunday
schools last Sunday and the attendance was
very large.
Atlanta has several restaurants that keep
their doors open all night. They are well
patronized.
The shipment of peaches from Middle
Georgia shows considerable falling off from
previous years.
Augustus new daily paper win appear on
June Is, and will publish the Associated
Press dispatches
The Decatur Land Company sold on
Wednesday sl64,OO0 worth of property in
and about Decatur.
The Gazette says Washington has never
before in all her history experienced such
activity in real estate.
The stockholders of the Elberton Air Line
contemplate changing the grade of the road
to the standard measure.
The sale of liquor expired at Millen last
Tuesday. The little brown jug will now
become fixture in that locality.
j. o. Mathews, of Scriven county, saws
he finds great number of turtle eggs on
the sand bars in the Savannah river.
0ptavia (sI1I1v tho xy-bi+a xx-ay,oaY, in, A
ems who last year gave birth to negro
child, has Joined the Salvation Army.
Bear hunting will soon commence near
Wire Grass. About thirty were killed there
last fall, seven of which were killed in one
day.
Porter Springs, in Upper Georgia, will be
popular resort during the summer months
The accommodations are said to be first
class.
Macon is already realizing the benefits
of her subscription of $500 per month,
devoted to the advertisement of her adyant-
ages.
The depredations of bud worms have com
PEELED many farmers in Lexington county
to pillow in and plant over their bottom
cotton.
George Wallace (colored), editor of the
Peoples Choice, in Macon, contemplates
trade issue. He has the cooperation of some
of Macon's best citizens.
At 2 p. M. Friday the Thermometer at
Brunswick stood 50 in the shade, making it
the hottest day they have had this year AT
3 p. m. thunder storm came up.
Jonathan Morgan, of Wire Grass, had
forty-one head Of sheep killed recently by
dogs. Twelve Of the sheep were killed in
one day. Mr.. Morgan succeeded in killing
the dogs.
A Lexington lady has two interesting
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revolution, and the other glass butter dish
that is known to have been in the family
for over $50 years.
Oglethorpe is luxuriating in first-class
haunted house. The ghostly agency is I'M
doubted GIoans and chain-rattling are
said to make the night hideous. The colored
element is much excited.
A heavy rain is reported from the Graves
Mountain neighborhood, Lincoln county,
Sunday evening. 1t was almost water
spout. Land is considerably washed but no
more serious injury is apprehended
A young man confined in Jail at Macon,
who has heard of the people of Waycross
and their piety, sent special request to the
church there last Sunday that he be remem-
bered by them at the throne of grace.
Quite large party from Macon and At
lanta spent Friday at the Snapper banks off
Brunswick. Messrs. Glover 81 Whitaker
cldTUoItQ bllt lllOit IOT tIl6 CTOWu, VINO mao
a good time and caught large numbers of
snappers.
The Governors refusal TO commute Hol-
mans sentence almost proved fatal to his
sister Anna. She tainted, and the action of
the heart had about ceased, when physi-
clan appeared, and, after much anxious
work and active remedies, succeeded in re-
viving her.
Albany is TO have a new bank, street
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terprise is abroad in the land. and it can find
no more profitable field than Albany The
city needs large increase in its small enter
prise, and an addition to its banking capital
is most imperative need.
At the jefferson jail Friday, while the
workInen were putting on the last stone, it
fell from the derrick, and the weight being
about 10000 pounds, it went crushing
through the jail to the floor. 1t will delay
the completion Of the Jail about three
weeks, and cause the contractor a loss of sew
eral hundred dollars.
With propitious seasons for the next month
one of the heaviest Yields of corn will be
made in Lincoln for years. A larger area
has been planted, a better stand couldn't be
desired, the land has been more thoroughly
prepared and the crop worked much better
than usual. Cotton is hustling, too; and is
In an excellent condition.
Harmony Grove, jackson county, has
sensational scandal agitating its widest
circles. A divorced lady living there was
delivered of a child the other day, and
prominent merchant has disappeared. The
child's dead body was in a trunk in the
woman's room, and it was examined 10 see
If IL was killed or not. The mother is in a
very precarious condition.
There will be called meeting of the Lin
coin county Agricultural Club ON the fourth
Saturday in this month, June 25.) II is
earnestly desired that full attendance be
had as the club will then determine whether
10 disband or not, whether a renewed inter-
est in farming matters shall tend TO resusci- |
tate the organization or whether Il shall be |
numbered with the things that were and |
are nOtn
a car load Of beef cattle passed through |
Albany Friday EN- route from Blakely to |
Savannah, and were taken off here 10 be |
fed at Barnes stables. They were wild, |
piney-woods cattle, and il was hard mat |
yer 20 get them through tho stable into the |
iot. They stampeded, and one of them
swan Flint river and got away, while |
another took the sull1s and had to be dragged !
INTO the herd pen.
The agent OF the Standard Oil Company
az Key West who was reported some time |
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